Wisdom Quotes
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"Why is our memory good enough to recall to the last detail things that have happened to us, yet not good enough to recall how often we have told them to the same person."
Quote by -François de La Rochefoucauld
"Sincerity is an openness of heart; we find it in very few people; what we usually see is only an artful dissimulation to win the confidence of others."
Quote by -François de La Rochefoucauld
"When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness."
Quote by -François de La Rochefoucauld
"When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them."
Quote by -François de La Rochefoucauld
"Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?"
Quote by -François de La Rochefoucauld
"Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person."
Quote by -François de La Rochefoucauld
"We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves."
Quote by -François de La Rochefoucauld
"Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth."
Quote by -Peter Drucker
"Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things."
Quote by -Peter Drucker
"There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all."
Quote by -Peter Drucker
"We can say with certainty - or 90% probability - that the new industries that are about to be born will have nothing to do with information."
Quote by -Peter Drucker
"Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths are, where they need to improve, and where they lack knowledge or information."
Quote by -Peter Drucker
"Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window."
Quote by -Peter Drucker
"The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity."
Quote by -Peter Drucker
"No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings."
Quote by -Peter Drucker
"The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself."
Quote by -Peter Drucker
"The most efficient way to produce anything is to bring together under one management as many as possible of the activities needed to turn out the product."
Quote by -Peter Drucker
"So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work."
Quote by -Peter Drucker
"Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations... They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though they call them 'operators' or 'programmers.'"
Quote by -Peter Drucker
"Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs."
Quote by -Peter Drucker
"Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions or that only senior executives' decisions matter. This is a dangerous mistake."
Quote by -Peter Drucker
"Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done."
Quote by -Peter Drucker
"People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year."
Quote by -Peter Drucker
"Concentration is the key to economic results. No other principles of effectiveness is violated as constantly today as the basic principle of concentration."
Quote by -Peter Drucker
"Capital formation is shifting from the entrepreneur who invests in the future to the pension trustee who invests in the past"
Quote by -Peter Drucker
"Objectives are not fate; they are direction. They are not commands; they are commitments. They do not determine the future; they are means to mobilize the resources and energies of the business for the making of the future."
Quote by -Peter Drucker
"How can we overcome the resistance to innovation that plagues most organizations?"
Quote by -Peter Drucker
"INNOVATION is the specific tool of entrepreneurs, the means by which they exploit change as an opportunity for a different business or a different service. It is capable of being presented as a discipline, capable of being learned, capable of being practiced. Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation, the changes and their symptoms that indicate opportunities for successful innovation. And they need to know and to apply the principles of successful innovation."
Quote by -Peter Drucker
"Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago."
Quote by -Johann Von Goethe
"Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it."
Quote by -Johann Von Goethe
"I will not be as those who spend the day in complaining of headache, and the night in drinking the wine that gives it"
Quote by -Johann Von Goethe